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...Mickey was playing shortstop for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids in the Ban Johnson League. He was big enough to deserve at least a perfunctory glance from the baseball scouts. But nobody seemed interested in glancing Mickey's way. The Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...
...evening dress." The one exception made: Artist Pablo Picasso, who came in a brown velvet jacket with a fleece-lined leather lumber-jacket draped over his shoulder. Among the crowd, photographers caught the sometime rebel Boy Wonder Orson Welles, in stylish-stout conformity, dancing ogle-eyed with Cinemactress Anne Baxter...
After graduation he worked on his Ph.D. theses under Professor Gregory Baxter. Baxter at that time was studying events in outer space, and Nash's thesis became a study of the gases in meteorites. Today, one of the country's foremost gas analysts, Nash calls his unusual sorcery "Analysis of What Goes Up the Stack...
Nash completed his thesis with Baxter in 1944, and worked for a year with Professor Urey at Columbia separating from Uranium-238 the atomic bomb-ingredient, U-235. But Nash was mainly interested in teaching so when the war ended, he first spent a year at Illinois, then returned to his alma mater in 1947 as an instructor in Chemistry. He received an appointment as Assistant Professor the following year. And he made an immediate name for himself by riding a bicycle to lectures, armed with a water pistol filled with ammonia to keep the dogs...
...visiting dignitaries decided to create a special office in charge of the University's public relations. He initiated the new post of Secretary to the University in 1936 and Little immediately took over the job. Two years later Little received the Adams House appointment when former Master James Phinney Baxter III left to become president of Williams...